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Alyssa Griffin 09/26/11 Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty A blind view point of this issue would be asking someone and taking what they say for face value. When I asked a co-worker they simply said that two wrongs do not make a right, there for they are opposed to the death penalty. My co-worker also said that in extreme cases they do feel that the death penalty is appropriate. Also asking another co-worker they were totally for the death penalty simply stating that an eye for an eye. If someone kills someone it should in return come back on them. The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes. There are three purposes behind the death penalty: to punish a crime, to prevent its repetition, and to discourage crimes. I can explore more about this topic through sir’s data base or find different articles and opinions about the death penalty. I have established enough information to have a viewpoint and I have considered the other viewpoints of this topic. My own opinion is that I am for the death penalty so the other view would be against it and I have looked at it from the other side. I feel that it is not needed in every case just the more extreme cases. The solution to the problem would be to stop with capital punishment but it however is not realistic because everyone will not agree to getting rid of capital punishment.
 * 1) Statement: Is the death penalty acceptable?
 * 2) Elaborate: I can see where in some cases the crime committed would be so horrendous that the death penalty is appropriate but I can also see the other side where it is not acceptable.
 * 3) Example: For = **"//Abolitionists may contend that the death penalty is inherently immoral because governments should never take human life, no matter what the provocation. But that is an article of faith, not of fact, just like the opposite position held by abolitionist detractors, including myself... The death penalty honors human dignity by treating the defendant as a free moral actor able to control his own destiny for good or for ill; it does not treat him as an animal with no moral sense, and thus subject even to butchery to satiate human gluttony. Moreover, capital punishment celebrates the dignity of the humans whose lives were ended by the defendant's predation. //"- Bruce Fein, JD, General Counsel for the Center for Law and Accountability **
 * Against= ** "//It //[capital punishment] //is immoral in principle, and unfair and discriminatory in practice... No one deserves to die. When the government metes out vengeance disguised as justice, it becomes complicit with killers in devaluing human life and human dignity. In civilized society, we reject the principle of literally doing to criminals what they do to their victims: The penalty for rape cannot be rape, or for arson, the burning down of the arsonist's house. We should not, therefore, punish the murderer with death... Capital punishment is a barbaric remnant of uncivilized society //."-  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in an Apr. 9, 2007 website section titled "The Death Penalty-


 * 1) Illustration: I feel that my stance is correct because I feel that most people can relate that there are some extreme cases where the death penalty is acceptable.